History

The church is the fourth building on the site on the village green in Bedford.[2][3] The cornerstone was laid and services celebrating the dedication of the then-most-recently-restored building were held in 1872.[4]

The first minister, Reverend Thomas Denham, settled in 1684, and a meeting house was built in 1689. When Bedford became part of New York, this house was transferred to Rye, New York. Bedford was part of the Anglican Church until the Revolution. A second meeting house was burned by order of a British colonel in 1779.[3] A third house was transferred to Westmoreland Sanctuary.[3] The fourth building, the present church, was built in 1872,[5] with a Sunday school in the rear.[3] It was described as